Field Site Guides and Discoveries
For logged-in members only, this section provides field guides or information documents to collection sites and provides space for sharing discoveries, photos and other information to help make field trips successful.
We will add more sites every month or two so keep coming back. Click through to the site Field Guide page and get more information plus add your comments and own photos to the gallery.
Long Lake Zinc Mine
Location
Close to Parham, Ontario (1 hr from Ottawa)
Access
Must have permission from owner
Fees
Fee per person collecting and fee per bucket
Minerals Found at Location
aragonite, calcite, chondrodite, diopside, dolomite, hydrozincite, smithsonite, galena, chalcopyrite, molybdenite, pyrite, pyrrhotite, quartz, sphalerite and ‘garnet group’ (Red italics: fluorescent minerals).
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Craigmont Corundum Mine
Location
Close to Combermere , Ontario (2.5 hr from Ottawa)
Access
Must have permission from owner
Fees
Fee TBD for each trip
Minerals Found at Location
Corundum, biotite, magnetite, mica, molybdenite, pyrite, smoky quartz and scapolite and others